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Vol. 012 Issue 047 (September 3 2007)
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Freshman orientation, Leona Helmsley, etc.
The Life of the Ivy League Mind One of The Scrapbook's undergraduate friends pointed us to an amusing webcast from a Cornell freshman orientation event—or perhaps that should be indoctrination...
Philip Terzian, working stiff.
_Casual Guanq in Georgetown Not long ago my wife, daughter, and I were driving along M Street in Georgetown, just past Wisconsin Avenue, when my wife gestured in the direction of an ancient...
Communists in Denmark.
The KGB in Copenhagen As the target of Lars Hedegaard's article "The KGB's Man in Copenhagen" (August 20 / August 27), I am tempted to send a long rebuttal. But reasonable readers have probably by...
The Left Shudders
EDITORIAL The Left Shudders Like a pig in muck, the left loves to wallow in Vietnam. But only in their "Vietnam." Not in the real Vietnam war. Not in the Vietnam war of 1963-68, the disastrous...
Hands Off My Analogy
CONTINETTI, MATTHEW
Hands Off My Analogy Liberals object when Bush discusses Vietnam by Matthew Continetti On August 22, at the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Kansas City, Missouri, President Bush delivered a...
A Novel Interpretation
TERZIAN, PHILIP
A Novel Interpretation Bush understands Graham Greene better than his critics. by Philip Terzian "The argument that America's presence in Indochina was dangerous had a long pedigree. In 1955, long...
Hollywood Witness
BARNES, FRED
Hollywood Witness Jon Voight, Whittaker Chambers fan. by Fred Barnes In his mind's eye, Jon Voight can see the scene unfolding. Tall, self-assured Alger Hiss is waiting in the witness room to...
If You Build It, They Will Take It
LAST, JONATHAN V.
If You Build It, They Will Take It Iowa's eminent domain reform is good but not great. by Jonathan V. Last Eminent domain appeared in the presidential campaign recently when Sen. John McCain...
Saudi Arabia's Koran Kops
SCHWARTZ, STEPHEN
Saudi Arabia's Koran Kops The religious police run amok. by Stephen Schwartz All is not well with the longstanding Saudi-U.S. alliance. In Washington, faint murmurs of discontent may be heard...
An Unsurpassed Scholar
LENZNER, STEVEN J.
An Unsurpassed Scholar Muhsin S. Mahdi, 1926-2007. by Steven J. Lenzner Muhsin Mahdi, the world's foremost scholar of medieval Arabic and Islamic political philosophy, died last month at the age...
THE HORROR! THE HORROR!
EMERY, NOEMIE
THE HORROR! THE HORROR! The paranoid style of the American left By Noemie Emery The fascists are coming! Or rather, they're already here, installed in the White House, planning like mad to...
Operation Phantom Strike
LOYOLA, MARIO
Operation Phantom Strike How the U.S. Military Is Demolishing Al Qaeda in Iraq After four long years, the coalition has finally grasped the keys to victory. Al Qaeda has begun to lose the staging...
Gentleman of Letters
HSIEH, WAYNE WEI-SIANG
Gentleman of Letters How General Lee comes to life in correspondence by Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh Worshipped, uncomprehended and aloof, Afigure lost to flesh and blood and bones, Frozen into a...
Cinema's Shakespeare
SIMON, JOHN
Cinema's Shakespeare Ingmar Bergman, 1918-2007 by John Simon My 1972 book, Ingmar Bergman Directs, begins with a long interview. After that, the first sentence runs: "Ingmar Bergman is, in my most...
George Tenet's CIA
GERECHT, REUEL MARC
George Tenet's CIA Picking up the pieces at Langley will be no slam dunk. by Reuel Marc Gerecht On the left and the right, George Tenet has been skewered for his role in the Iraq war, and this...
Lust Down East
BecK, Stefan
Lust Down East Courtship can be complicated on the coast of Maine. by Stefan Beck The countless reviews of Zachary Leader's Life of Kingsley Amis have made one thing clear: The reading public...
Romancing the Stein
Bachrach, Judy
Romancing the Stein An account of Gertrude and Alice that Gertrude would have liked. by Judy Bachrach cc How had this pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?" Janet Malcolm asks...
Cheap Thrills
PODHORETZ, JOHN
Cheap Thrills It doesn't take much to enthrall the prepubescent audience. by John Podhoretz What are we to make of the fact that the most successful work of popular entertainment made in this...
Parody
“Jenna Bush, one of President George W. Bush's twin daughters, is engaged to be married to her longtime boyfriend, Henry Hager, the White House announced Thursday.” —Associated Press, August 16,...
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